The unbearable lightness of being review5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() It definitely leaves you with a hangover after you're done reading.' A book about love and life, full of surprises. A mighty piece of work, that will shape your life forever.' ![]() 'Some books change your mind, some change your heart, the very best change your whole world. The Unbearable Lightness of Being encompasses passion and philosophy, infidelity and ideas, the Prague Spring and modern America, political acts and private desires, comedy and tragedy - in fact, all of human existence. In a world where lives are shaped by choices and events, and everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance and weight - and we feel 'the unbearable lightness of being'. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals while her other lover stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities. ' John BanvilleĪ young woman is in love with a successful surgeon a man torn between his love for her and his womanising. As relevant now as when it was first published. ![]() Exhilaratingly subversive and funny.' Independent 'A dark and brilliant achievement.' Ian McEwan ![]()
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